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This report by the Regional Educational Laboratory West at WestEd explores the differences among California’s counties and regions in their need for new school-site administrators in the coming decade, as driven by a combination of projected administrator retirements and projected student enrollment changes.

In addition, the report provides estimates of the percentage of school-site administrators—principals and vice principals—that will need to be replaced by the next decade. For example, the authors estimate that over the next decade, the need for new school-site administrators ranges between 9 percent and 71 percent of counties’ current workforces, with the highest need counties generally in the Central Valley and Inland Empire regions.

A short summary of the report is also available.

Additional information from REL West is available at http://relwest.WestEd.org. Information about the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) system and other REL publications can be found at the National Regional Educational Laboratory Program website.